{"product_id":"suffering-victory-guillaume-sauv-9781501781049","title":"Suffering Victory: Soviet Liberals and the Failure of Democracy in Russia, 1987-1993","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSuffering Victory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e recounts the commitment of Soviet liberal intellectuals to democratic transition during the effervescent period of perestroika and in the first years of post-Soviet Russia to the rise of Boris Yeltsin and the dissolution of the USSR.\u003c\/b\u003e Guillaume Sauv? argues that late Soviet liberalism was mainly nourished by the legacy of humanistic socialism, combining Enlightenment ideals and Romantic aspirations, and concludes that the distinguishing feature is its assumed moralism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter encouraging the concentration of power in the hands of the Russian president and an enlightened elite, liberal intellectuals undermined their own democratic project and were pushed aside from decision-making, while being rejected by most of the population for having supported a course of reforms that did not fulfill its promises. As \u003ci\u003eSuffering Victory\u003c\/i\u003e shows, the success of Russia's liberal intellectuals against the Communist Party came at the price of a decline deeper and more lasting than in most post-communist countries. Following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the fate of late Soviet liberals sheds crucial light on the prospects of liberal reforms in Russia today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Guillaume Sauv?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501781049\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501781049\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northern Illinois University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Guillaume Sauv?","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46747555692799,"sku":"9781501781049","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4926688f-5cc3-49d3-bbf7-f61f8ec85eb3.jpg?v=1743584111","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/suffering-victory-guillaume-sauv-9781501781049","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}